Matching Pairs Noun Suffixes CE UI U2Online version Noun Suffixes meanings by Jennifer Thorson 1 -ee example: trainee 2 -hood example: childhood 3 -ment example: movement 4 -ity / -iety / -y example: anxiety 5 -er / -ian / -or example: musician 6 -ship example: friendship 7 -ism example: neoliberalism 8 -ist example: communist 9 -tion / -sion / -ion / -ation example: imagination 10 -ness example: happiness 11 -our / -iour / -ure example: pleasure 12 -ance / -ence example: tolerance used to describe peoples beliefs and sometimes their occupation often used to form abstract nouns often used to form nouns from verbs (such as imagine) used to form abstract nouns, particularly about relationships used to describe a person on whom an action is performed used to describe religions or ideologies and for some abstract nouns used to form abstract nouns concerned with periods of life or relationships between people often used to form abstract/concept nouns from verbs (like move) often used to form abstract/concept nouns from adjectives (such as happy) often used to form nouns from adjectives (such as anxious) used to form abstract nouns from adjectives ending in -ant or -ent used for people or things that do a particular job
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